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What do you do after death and destruction have befallen the earth, and turned it into a smoldering wasteland? You listen to Johnny Franks on Active Radioactive Radio! Because... what else are you gonna do?

We have voluntarily self-rated this production as PG-13. Some material may not be suitable for children.

In August of 2011, after far too long away, Susan and I began hosting RPG nights. I was the GM, and I was trying to create the most immersive experience possible for the players, in a way I never had before.

I had tactile in-game currency, full 3D models of towns and buildings for battles, and I supplemented the gaming sessions with original, custom audio files to provide ambience, music, and even a "live" DJ who'd get news on the players' exploits and report on them to the world at large.

I asked for volunteers to do voices for the DJ and several NPCs on Twitter. Doled out the roles in the order people said they'd help out. And we created a monster.

Johnny Franks quickly became beloved by all, and while life and time restraints put our RPG on hold, we grew to miss the bloviating blowhard. And then Susan and I got to thinking that he and his show would make a fantastic new style of audio drama at Pendant... and here we are.

We hope you grow to love Johnny as much as we do, and enjoy getting to know him and the denizens of the crazy world he inhabits.

"Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart" by Ada Jones
under the CC BY-NC 2.5 license
Courtesy of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library
Standard noise reduction was performed on this piece

Johnny Needs Booze

Episode Number: 1

Welcome to the wasteland! Johnny Franks has all the news and music a survivor of the apocalypse could ask for. Plus, meet delightful denizens Oksana, Katryna, Remmick and Dexter! Have a drink, Johnny's buying*.